A little while later.
The door opened.
Shen Yunzhi swung her baseball bat straight at him.
Sweep aside the idiots!
Be yourself again!
Ji Nanxian heard the rush of air and knew something was wrong.
Before his brain could even react, his survival instincts had already made him cover his head and duck as the baseball bat came swinging toward him.
"Oh?" Shen Yunzhi remarked at his nimble reaction.
Ji Nanxian scrambled and crawled to the foot of the wall.
He was furious and flustered, but also afraid Shen Yunzhi would keep attacking indiscriminately.
"Shen Yunzhi! Have you actually gone insane?!"
Shen Yunzhi casually rested the baseball bat on her shoulder, even using it like a massage stick to tap around her shoulder as she asked Ji Nanxian flippantly:
"What do you want now? Here for another round of kickboxing?"
As Shen Yunzhi spoke, her gaze dropped to Ji Nanxian's nether regions.
The spot where Ji Nanxian had been kicked last time suddenly felt rather breezy around his balls, and his hands instinctively moved from his head to his crotch.
That amused Shen Yunzhi.
Only when Ji Nanxian heard Shen Yunzhi snicker did he realize he was acting a little cowardly.
He gritted his teeth. To preserve his masculine dignity, he even put Jiang Yunli's matter out of his mind and started dredging up old grievances with Shen Yunzhi again.
"Do you know why I've hated you so much all these years?"
Shen Yunzhi put on a very curious expression. "Why?"
Seeing how Shen Yunzhi looked willing to humble herself and ask, Ji Nanxian sneered.
He thought Shen Yunzhi was doing this to get his attention.
Sure enough, she still cared what he thought of her.
Ji Nanxian said, "You've been a shrew from beginning to end. You're not as talented as Yunli, nor are you as good at handling people. Whenever anything happens, you go crazy. You're frivolous, crude, and nothing like a well-bred young lady. How am I supposed to like you?"
Ji Nanxian's tirade was viciously cutting.
Who would have thought Shen Yunzhi would stroke her chin and say, "Then I'd better keep up all these excellent qualities. Having you fall for me would be absolutely terrifying."
Ji Nanxian: "...?"
"..." Xiao Yao, who had only been passing by, actually stopped in his tracks.
Here came the drama.
The livestream was still running.
So the viewers in the livestream, who had not gone to join the argument, also heard what Shen Yunzhi said to Ji Nanxian.
[...]
[I seriously wonder whether Shen Yunzhi is actually Ji Nanxian's simp.]
[It's not like all those stories of Shen Yunzhi simping for him over the years were fake.]
[But Shen Yunzhi really hasn't given Ji Nanxian so much as an admiring glance on the livestream.]
[Maybe she came to her senses?]
[No kidding. Simps are people too. Look at how Ji Nanxian treats Jiang Yunli, then look at how he treats her. I couldn't keep simping either.]
[Honestly, they say a woman pursuing a man only has a thin veil to cross. Add Shen Yunzhi's beauty buff, and if she'd picked literally anyone else to simp for, surely she'd have landed him after five years?]
[You're right. Teacher Shen, pursue me. I'll show you what effortless really means.]
[?]
[Have some standards, sis.]
Shen Yunzhi's attitude actually made Ji Nanxian laugh in anger.
Finding it absurd, he said, "Shen Yunzhi, don't think I don't know you've been targeting Yunli behind the scenes all these years because of me. I let the petty stuff slide before, but you've gone too far this time."
Shen Yunzhi was baffled. "What have I done now?"
Ji Nanxian said, "Don't play dumb. Yunli didn't push you on purpose in the first place. You made the director post the replay, then stirred things up online to get people to cyberbully her. Don't think I don't know it was you."
Ji Nanxian accused Shen Yunzhi sternly.
He left Shen Yunzhi utterly confused.
Yet Ji Nanxian remained convinced he had guessed correctly, holding back his anger as he warned Shen Yunzhi.
"There's a limit to my patience with you. If you dare target Yunli again, I won't let you get away with it."
Shen Yunzhi: "..."
What kind of idiotic domineering CEO dialogue was this?
Was there something wrong with his brain?
[The director clearly posted it. How did Ji Nanxian manage to pin the blame on Shen Yunzhi?]
[Ji Nanxian is just a rich kid coasting through life without a single skill. Would he dare take on the production team?]
[Exactly. Don't forget that Xiao Yao is bankrolling this show.]
[He can't afford to bully anyone else, so of course he came after Shen Yunzhi.]
[Poor Shen Yunzhi.]
Shen Yunzhi's haters couldn't stand how well things had been going for her lately and went wild in the live comments.
[What's so pitiful about her? Did Ji Nanxian and Jiang Yunli force her to simp?]
[She insisted on throwing herself at him. Who else's business is that?]
[Hilarious. You make three thousand a month and feel sorry for a rich heiress whose monthly allowance is in the millions?]
Shen Yunzhi's fans:
[Who told you I make three thousand a month? Add four zeros, and that's only my monthly allowance, not counting dividends from the family trust. Every year, my mom dumps hundreds of millions into my account and tells me to spend whatever I want. I'm not allowed home until I spend it all. Every day I wake up to hundreds of thousands more in returns. I can't spend it all. I literally can't.]
[Holy shit! We've got a super-rich lady among us Shen fans?!]
[Your public persona is whatever you make it. Let me tell you, as long as you try hard enough, you can make up any bullshit.]
[...]
[...]
[Could you not say truths like that outright in the live comments next time? It makes us Shen fans look so lame.]
The haters were just about to start mocking them when they saw the following comment.
[Girl, you seriously believed that? Go look at her profile. She really is rich.]
Everyone flocked to check out the rich woman's profile.
All kinds of luxury cars, bags, and estates.
Holy crap!
She was for real?!
[Rich people are hereby banned from shitposting. I actually believed you!]
[You little rascal! Get out! You're not allowed to stan the same person as me!]
Shen Yunzhi's rich fan put the haters to shame with hard facts.
The haters were absolutely livid.
They scoured the rich fan's Weibo profile over and over.
They tried to find signs that she had stolen photos to show off.
But she was online under her real identity.
She had even written what her family did on her profile.
It was all easily verifiable.
Their heads hurt.
They were about to grow brains.
Why would an actual heiress become a fan of a lunatic like Shen Yunzhi?
In the livestream.
Shen Yunzhi laughed. "There's video evidence that she pushed me. You say I had the director post that footage and stirred things up to get her cyberbullied. What evidence can you produce?"
Ji Nanxian said, "You've always had it out for Yunli. Does that even need evidence?!"
Shen Yunzhi shrugged. "Fine. If I did it, I certainly wouldn't admit it. Then why don't you go to the director? Have him simply say the footage was maliciously edited to manipulate public opinion and make him apologize. Wouldn't that be easier?"
Ji Nanxian was momentarily at a loss for words. "He..."
Shen Yunzhi's words struck Ji Nanxian right where it hurt. "Oh, I get it. He has Xiao Yao backing him. I forgot you can't afford to offend him."
Watching the drama from the first floor, Xiao Yao nearly laughed when he heard Shen Yunzhi.
Shen Yunzhi knew Ji Nanxian couldn't afford to provoke him.
Then how had she been so utterly fearless, beating him within an inch of his life?
He had never been beaten in his entire life.
That damn girl had hit hard.
Back with Shen Yunzhi.
Shen Yunzhi's blunt remark left Ji Nanxian burning with humiliation and anger.
He said, "What good does bringing that up do? I'm telling you to post on Weibo and clear Yunli's name right now!"
"How does it not help?" Shen Yunzhi said unhurriedly. "You say she didn't do it on purpose, but after pushing me, the first thing she said was that I was trying to hook up with Xiao Yao. Her entire long-winded speech was nothing but accusations."
"Even if she didn't know who she'd pushed at the time, she could have guessed from the position Xiao Yao and I landed in, couldn't she?"
"Are you saying that even though she knew what happened between Xiao Yao and me was an accident, she still deliberately accused me of falling over just to seduce him?"
Ji Nanxian suddenly had no words.
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